For the past few weeks I’ve been preoccupied with drawing. Pencil studies of birds mostly and some sketches for future compositions. I f...

Yellow-Eyed Penguins on Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. Watercolour Below First Winter Blackback Gulls: Ostend.     Watercolour The...

Three paintings I've sent to the Church Stretton Festival Art Exhibition Opening times are 10.00am to 6.00pm Daily Tortoishell ...

The picture shows my submissions to the Ludlow Art Society Spring Exhibition which ran for one week opening on Easter Saturday. Now the l...

This watercolour will be my 5 th and final submission for the LAS Summer Exhibition which is held on the last two weeks in August. Pre...

  This is the final version of the ones shown in earlier posts. I'm making increasing use of acrylic in my watercolours - I like thei...

My favourite tool for sketching has been a Sepia Pentel Colour Brush. It had water soluble pigment which could be softened and blended with ...

Great Witley is a pleasant village in the Teme valley near Worcester. The Festival is an annual event held in aid of the local Scouts and...

This is another version of the painting I posted back in November 2011 – then it had a flight of oystercatchers over the Sound.  I was...

This is a half-sheet watercolour on Waterford NOT composed from an arrangement of the Yellow Eyed Penguin sketches. After the initia...

New Zealand’s Fiordland has some wonderful locations. I took a boat excursion to Doubtful Sound. It was a day of heavy rain but that did...

I Had time to get back to the Lesser Blackbacks today. Most of the time was spent working on the birds. The feather patterns were intri...

I was determined to celebrate May 1 st by completing this painting of the Hawaian Geese. It was in danger of going off the boil beca...

Last year on the seafront at Ostend I encountered a small flock of 1 st . Winter Lesser Blackback Gulls. It was bitterly cold an...

In May last year my wife and I spent a day in Brussels while on holiday in Belgium and were surprised to Peregrines nesting in a tower o...

I’ve been working on the Nenes today.   I decided to use the ripples in the water to group the birds together . The birds were mostly...

The family librarian – that’s my daughter who works at Newman University College, Birmingham – has  persuaded me to become Kindle convert!...

These are some of the Nenes I photographed at Slimbridge. There were small groups tamely wandering around but I caught these three in a...

With the Easter exhibitions out of the way I’ve been back in drawing mode for the past few days.  I’m planning a series of watercolours ba...

I've been framing work today ready to hand in at the LAS Spring exhibition on Friday. I'm using a frame I had in stock from an ear...